This is a RESTful API for a blog platform built using Django and Django Rest Framework (DRF). It provides endpoints for managing blog posts, user authentication, pagination, and request throttling.
- 🔹 CRUD Operations: Create, Read, Update, and Delete blog posts.
- 🔹 User Authentication: Token-based authentication using DRF.
- 🔹 Pagination: Efficiently fetch blog posts with paginated results.
- 🔹 Throttling: Rate limit requests to prevent abuse.
- 🔹 Filtering & Searching: Retrieve blog posts based on different criteria.
- Backend: Django, Django Rest Framework (DRF)
- Database: SQLite
- Authentication: DRF Token Authentication
The BlogPost model represents a blog post created by a user.
- title (CharField): Stores the blog post title (max length: 100).
- content (TextField): Contains the blog content.
- author (ForeignKey to User): Links the post to a registered user.
- created_at (DateTimeField): Automatically records when the post was created.
- updated_at (DateTimeField): Automatically updates when the post is modified.
- is_published (BooleanField): Defines whether the post is published (default:
False). - total_likes (IntegerField): Stores the number of likes on the post (default:
0).
The Comment model allows users to leave comments on a blog post.
- comment_user (ForeignKey to User): The user who commented.
- likes (PositiveIntegerField): Tracks likes (either
0or1, using validators). - comments (TextField): Stores the actual comment text.
- blogpost (ForeignKey to BlogPost): Links the comment to a specific blog post.
- created (DateTimeField): Timestamp when the comment was created.
- updated (DateTimeField): Timestamp when the comment was last updated.
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